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Voting cheat sheet
In the talk page:
== Oneliner intro ==
Your proposal...
In the article (optional):
See: [Help:Voting], [BRWiki:Policy/Voting]
Most of the time, editing a wiki is just a matter of applying the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, but sometimes matters need a vote to be resolved, or maybe you're just not sure if applying a major change is right and want to test the waters first. This page describes how to set up a vote in accordance with the BRWiki voting policy.
This is brief description of how to start votes in BRWiki. For the actual policy govering votes, please see BRWiki:Policy/Voting. The most important bits are however described in the voting templates themselves.
How to start a vote
Creating the voting booth
Edit the discussion page of the article:
== Oneliner intro text ==
{{Proposal}}
I would like to .....
{{subst:Vote/Talk}}
This will create a voting booth like below, and automatically add the talk page to Category:Votes_in_progress.
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Oneliner intro text
Use this template in talk pages to draw people's attention to your proposal. Do not use it in article pages; use {{Vote/Note|<oneliner intro>}} there.
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This is a proposal and requires a vote to be accepted or declined.
Please vote below after you have reviewed the proposal. I would like to .....
It was deemed that this proposal requires a vote. Please vote below! If one side outnumbers the other by five votes for three days, that side is declared the winner. Please do not mark this for accepted/declined or remove this message until the voting has met Voting policy requirements.
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How to place your vote:
- Simply click [Edit] in the upper-right hand corner of the Votes section, and type exactly one of the following below the other present votes:
{{vote|Yes|~~~~|your notes or leave empty}}, or
{{vote|No|~~~~|your notes or leave empty}}
- Then click Save page and you are done!
Note that some votes will have other options than Yes/No.
You may also want to check up on what is linking to the article!
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When one side is winning:
- If you are adding the winning vote, or notice that one side is in fact winning:
- Change {{Vote/Vote}} on this talk page to {{Vote/Closing}}
- If Yes has won, and 3 days has passed:
- Change {{Vote/Closing}} on this talk page to {{Accepted}}
- Make the change suggested in the proposal.
- If No has won, and 3 days has passed:
- Change {{Vote/Closing}} on this talk page to {{Declined}}
- Do not remove the votes!
If necessary, you may archive votes to Help:Voting/Archivevote.
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Votes
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Using {{Proposal}} is entirely optional. It has no effect other than drawing people's attention to your proposal.
Drawing attention to your vote
First of all, the {{Vote/Vote}} template will automatically place your vote in Category: Votes in progress. However, if you want people visiting the article to immediately take note of the ongoing vote, you can put {{Vote/Note|<oneliner intro>}} in the article itself:
{{Vote/Note|
* Should we......(short text)?
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This will result in the following:
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 There are one or more proposals to change this article on the discussion page. Please help us make BRWiki better by giving us your input!
- Should we......(short text)?
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If you do not want to explain the vote in the article, you can of course just use {{Vote/Note|<leave blank>}}.
To draw even more attention to your vote, you can show it in the community portal by adding it to BRWiki:Community Portal/Democracy.
